Victims still waiting for relief

Jajpur, August 26 (Odisha.in) Thousands of residents in flood hit Jajpur district are still waiting for relief that the government promised them but not yet provided.

At least 5000 residents of Majhipada, Saudia, Raipur and Kolhanagiri panchayats are surrounded with water even on Sunday though the water level in two rivers Genguti and Birupa have come down since Friday.

The affected villagers complained that they have not received any relief yet. The situation in villages under Majhipada gram panchayat continued to get worse as they are still waterlogged.

The residents have been forced to stay without food and drinking water. “We are starving since a week.”But no relief materials has reached us” a villager told Odisha.in

“We are compelled to drink polluted water from the local well as the lone source of drinking water (tube wells) has gone contaminated due to flood water” Bichitrananda Mohapatra, a resident of Majhipada said.

The tube wells here are laying defunct for the last couple of months”, he alleged.

The right side embankment of the Genguti River was not repaired for the past couple of years.

“A master plan for the permanent Flood control here was initiated by the former minister Amar Prasad Satapathy and NABARD had allocated the requisite funds. But the project is yet to be started.

“Even the weak embankment of Genguti is not repaired for the past so many years” former Sarpanch, Baikunthanath Panda said.